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May 17, 2008

G45: Red Sox 7, Brewers 6

After Mike Lowell gives the Sox an early lead -- two-run double in the 1st, two-run dong in the 3rd -- the Brewers battle back. The leads changes hands twice in a sloppy 7th inning (two errors on each side), before Mike Timlin pitches a tidy eight-pitch 9th to nail down the Saturday sweep.

Hey gang! Absurdly difficult time getting from Manhattan back to Queens today. None of my trains are running where they're supposed to be. Dumb weekend trains. I did have an amazing lamb gyro from a halal street vendor though, which made up for it.

In red tonight, eh?

Oh, and we can expect wonderful things from Ococ tonight, as I benched him today on my fantasy team, and he consistently makes me look silly when I do that.

WTF? I just called Kapler Cookie monster because he is the reining cookie off champion, but I just found out at baseball statistics that Ortiz already had that nick name:David OrtizDavid Americo (Arias) Ortiz (Papi or Cookie Monster)

Now let's see if a Sox reliever can finally strand some runners. I was racking my brain trying to remember the Sox middle reliever in the 90s who had good ERAs but let all his inherited runners score. Drove me nuts, because the national announcers kept saying how great a season he was having. Finally remembered his name this inning: Dennis Lamp.It's no fun getting senile.Get off my lawn!

I meet interesting people when I pick up raw milk from a local farm. Last time I went this woman told me that saying the word "reach" helps you remember a word or name you can't remember, or find something you lost.

It hasn't worked for my, but maybe that's because I don't remember thing due to the little worms eating my memories.

Thanks, Patrick. I had a college professor who claimed "the tip of the tongue" phenomemon could be addressed by saying the first word that came to mind, and then to try to find similar characteristics of that word in the word you couldn't think of. Like for "Lamb" I might only be able to come up with "ram" or even "veal." It works sometimes.

How Eastern of you, I-Girl. Yes, that works sometimes. I just thought of the Harvard professor's name using that method: Roger Brown, who did a lot of great work in cognitive dissonance. And great at keeping inherited runners from scoring, too...